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arlitiajones

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The worst thing somebody ever said about one of my plays: 

It's all poetry.



The best thing somebody ever said about one of my plays: 
It's all poetry. 
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ARLITIA JONES is an award-winning poet, playwright, and co-founder of TossPot Productions in Anchorage, Alaska. Her most recent work includes her short play Tornado which was chosen winner in the 38th Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival and 2014 National Award Winner Summer Shorts Festival with City Theatre, Miami, Florida. Come to me, Leopards received a workshop production in 2013 at Cyrano’s Theatre.   Rush at Everlasting premiered at Perseverance Theatre in 2014. Jones received a 2014 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation. She is a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Playwrights’ Group. Her latest play Summerland was produced by the Seattle Rep this for their New Play Festival this October. She is a resident alumna at Hedgebrook and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She participated as an emerging playwright in the 2013 Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center. Her volume of poetry The Bandsaw Riots won the Dorothy Brunsman Award for Poetry from Bear Star Press, Cohasset, CA in 2001. Jones recently finished a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol commissioned by Perseverance Theatre for their 2014/2015 season. She is a frequent writer for Alaska Overnighters, presented by Three Wise Moose and TBA Theatre in Anchorage. She is the author of Grampus, a web blog featuring postings about writing, dog walking and sea monsters. Member of Blue Roses Productions, The Dramatists’ Guild of America. 



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